The meetings tool is an add-in which works in the background of Outlook to gather meeting data from your calendar and present an analysis back to you.
All versions of Outlook from Outlook 2007 enable the full functionality of the add-in. To understand which version of Outlook you are using, please take a look at the Microsoft guidance on this. Then please select the installation guide you need below. Each installation guide has a link to the correct version of the add-in. Please follow the guidance carefully.
Installation guide for Outlook 2010 and later
Installation guide for Outlook 2007
If you are feeling lucky, talented, or if someone is helping you through this, you may prefer the following shortcut …
- Close everything down except this webpage (restart your machine if you have time)
- Run the correct installer for your Outlook: 2007 | 2010 and later – and follow the instructions
- Open Outlook, and let things settle down before you do anything else – and wait for an Inspirometer email (It sometimes helps to close and reopen Outlook a second time – even if you have the email)
- If you can see the Inspirometer buttons and they work, that is it done (simply request a new password – ‘forgot password’ – to access your meeting statistics)
- If the buttons aren’t there, or they don’t work, you may need to do some basic troubleshooting